Robotics and Simulation for Computer Science Education in the 21st Century

计算（35）该项目正在开发可访问的，可扩展的机器人系统模拟，用于整个大学计算机科学课程。 它还评估了模拟在管理学生在不同课程级别的机器人构建和软件调试上花费的时间方面的效用。该项目正在调整JPL/NASA的ROAMS系统，以创建机器人分析和建模模拟器（RAMS），用于整个计算课程的机器人组件的教学材料。RAMS正在测试接口的教学效益，这些接口可以由教师缩放，为学生提供适合手头实验室项目的模拟细节。 RAMS正在使用平台中立的方法来建模机器人，以帮助教育工作者更容易地识别和利用当今使用的许多教育平台之间的教学共性。该项目的智力价值来自于研究如何使机器人项目中的机械和环境背景知识适当地接近计算机科学专业，并从调查模拟在提高计算机科学学生的机器人教育经验中的作用。该项目的模拟器具有更广泛的影响，使计算机科学教育的“机器人革命”在大学更容易获得，几乎没有硬件工程支持，以帮助学生培养为机器人设计软件的技能。 目前正在评估RAMS系统，将其作为互联网资源的基础，使资源有限的学校能够通过逼真的网络模拟，以更高的成本效益参加国家或区域机器人竞赛。 该项目使美国大学生更容易获得NASA流行项目（如火星漫游者）的软件。

Computing (35)This project is developing accessible, scalable simulation of robotic systems for use across the collegiate computer science curriculum. It is also assessing the utility of simulation in managing the time students spend on robot construction and software debugging at different course levels in the curriculum. The project is adapting JPL/NASA's ROAMS system to create the Robotic Analysis and Modeling Simulator (RAMS) for teaching material with a robotics component across the computing curriculum. RAMS is testing the pedagogical benefits of interfaces that can be scaled by the instructor to offer students simulation details appropriate to the laboratory project at hand. RAMS is using a platform-neutral approach to model robots to help educators more easily identify and exploit pedagogical commonalities among the many educational platforms in use today. The project's intellectual merit derives from researching how to make mechanical and environmental background knowledge in robotics projects appropriately accessible to computer science majors and from investigating the role of simulations in improving computer science students' educational experience with robotics. The project's simulator has broader impact in making computer science education's "robotics revolution" more accessible at colleges with little hardware engineering support to help students develop skills at designing software for robots. The RAMS system is being evaluated as a basis for Internet resources to allow schools with limited resources to participate more cost-effectively in national or regional robotics competitions through realistic networked simulations. This project is making NASA software from popular programs (e.g. Mars Rovers) more accessible to the US undergraduate community.